Deeds (Act) of Apostles 7:6-48

⁶And God spake to him, That his seed shall be a comeling or a guest in an alien land, and they shall make them subject to servage, and shall evil treat them, four hundred years and thirty or four hundred years;

⁷and I shall judge the folk to whom they shall serve, saith the Lord. And after these things they shall go out, and they shall serve to me in this place.

⁸And he gave to him the testament of circumcision; and so he engender-ed Isaac, and circumcised him in the eighth day. And Isaac engendered Jacob, and Jacob engendered the twelve patriarchs.

⁹And the patriarchs had envy to Joseph, and sold him into Egypt. And God was with him,

¹⁰and delivered him of all his tribulations, and gave him grace and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And he ordained him sove-reign on Egypt, and on all his house.

¹¹And hunger came into all Egypt, and Canaan, and great tribulation; and our fathers found not meat.

¹²But when Jacob had heard, that wheat was in Egypt, he sent our fathers first.

¹³And in the second time Joseph was known of his brethren, and his kin was made known to Pharaoh.

¹⁴And Joseph sent, and called Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy and five men or souls.

¹⁵And Jacob came down into Egypt, and was dead, he and our fathers;

¹⁶and they were translated into Sychem, and were laid in the sepulchre, that Abraham bought by price of silver of the sons of Emmor, the son of Sychem.

¹⁷And when the time of promise came nigh, which God had acknowl-edged to Abraham, the people waxed, and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁸till another king rose in Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

¹⁹This beguiled our kin, and torment-ed our fathers, that they should put away or should put out their young children, for they should not live.

²⁰In the same time Moses was born, and he was loved or accepted of God; and he was nourished three months in the house of his father.

²¹And when he was put out in the flood, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and nourished him into her son.

²²And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and works.

²³But when the time of forty years was full-filled to him, it rose up into his heart, that he should visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.

²⁴And when he saw a man suffering wrong, he avenged him, and did vengeance for him that suffered the wrong, and killed the Egyptian.

²⁵For he guessed that his brethren should understand, that God should give to them health by the hand of him; but they understood not.

²⁶For in the day pursuing he appeared to them chiding, and he accorded or reconciled them in peace, and said, Men, ye be brethren; why annoy ye each other?

²⁷But he that did the wrong to his neighbour, putted him away, and said, Who ordained thee prince and dooms-man on us?

²⁸Whether thou wilt slay me, as yesterday thou killedest the Egyptian?

²⁹And in this word Moses flew, and was made a comeling in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.

³⁰And when he had ful filled forty years, an angel appeared to him in fire of flame of a bush, in desert of the mount of Sinai.

³¹And Moses saw, and wondered on the sight. And when he nighed to behold, the voice of the Lord was made to him,

³²and said, I am God of your fathers, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. Moses was made trembling, and durst not behold.

³³But God said to him, Do off the shoes of thy feet, for the place in which thou standest is holy earth.

³⁴I seeing saw the tormenting or the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and I heard the mourning of them, and came down to deliver them. And now come thou, and I shall send thee into Egypt.

³⁵This Moses whom they denied, saying, Who ordained thee prince and doomsman on us? God sent this prince and again-buyer, with the hand of the angel, that appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶This Moses led them out, and did wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in desert forty years.

³⁷This is Moses, that said to the sons of Israel, God shall raise to you a prophet of your brethren, and as me ye shall hear him.

³⁸This it is, that was in the church in wilderness, with the angel that spake to him in the mount of Sinai, and with our fathers; which took words of life to give to us.

³⁹To whom our fathers would not obey, but putted him away, and were turned away in their hearts into Egypt,

⁴⁰saying to Aaron, Make thou to us gods, that shall go before us; for to this Moses that led us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is done to him.

⁴¹And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the maumet or the simulacrum; and they were glad in the works of their hands.

⁴²And God turned, and betook them to serve to the knighthood of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets, Whether ye, house of Israel, offered to me slain sacrifices, either sacrifices, forty years in desert?

⁴³And ye have taken the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, figures that ye have made to worship them; and I shall translate you into Babylon.

⁴⁴The tabernacle of witnessing was with our fathers in desert, as God disposed to them, and spake to Moses, that he should make it after the form that he saw.

⁴⁵Which also our fathers took with Jesus, that was Joshua, and brought into the possession of heathen men, which God putted away from the face of our fathers, till into the days of David,

⁴⁶that found grace with God, and asked that he should find a tabernacle to God of Jacob.

⁴⁷But Solomon builded the house to him.

⁴⁸But the high God dwelleth not in things made by hand, as he saith by the prophet,